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Sunday 16 November 2008
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From the Hands of Our Ancestors is an exhibition about to open in Darwin, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Featuring the arts and crafts of East Timor, it's the first-ever international display of the national collection since independence.
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The Patrick White Award is an annual prize given to an Australian writer. Worth $30,000, it comes from a trust that Patrick White set up with the money he received from winning the Nobel prize for literature. It's awarded to a novelist or a poet or dramatist, whose work hasn't received the recognition it deserves.
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Last week on Artworks, Julie Copeland talked to the Sydney pathologist and art collector Colin Laverty about how you make a collection. This week Julie is taking the conversation further with him, to tease out ideas about the way we look at contemporary Aboriginal art -- as fine art, or as ethnographic art.
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Perhaps the most potent work of art symbolising the ideas implicit in Humanism is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, as God's outstretched finger reaches across space to touch Adam's. Jason Smith is the director of Heidi museum, and he is today's guide to humanism.
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The Artworks feature today is about Venice at the end of the eighteenth century -- and in particular one woman's story. Lucia Mocenigo was a high-born Venetian living through one of the most turbulent periods in European history. She's now best known as Lord Byron's landlady (she charged him a fortune to live in her crumbling palazzo -- and together they're largely responsible for creating the romantic, tourist image of Venice.)
Sunday 09 November 2008
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It seems a strange thing that there is an Australian playwright who's more famous in France than he is here. It's quite usual, for example, to see billboards in the Paris Metro advertising his plays on at the major theatres in Paris.
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Have you ever thought about becoming an art collector -- diverting whatever spare cash you can muster to purchases large or small?
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For the ISM in art today, we're heading to revolutionary Russia and a socio-musical paradox, neoclassicism. Taking us there is the musician and breakfast host on ABC FM, Emma Ayres.
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This Artworks feature is about a group of artists involved in the environmental catastrophe that is the Murray Darling Basin, with its dire water shortages, the death of ancient redgums, the desiccation of wetlands, and growers burning their orchards.
Sunday 02 November 2008
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Dr Stefano Carboni is the new director of The Art Gallery of Western Australia. He has just taken up the post fresh from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was curator and administrator of the Department of Islamic Art.
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In Melbourne, the Princes Bridge across the Yarra is the city's best-known river crossing. But if you head under this bridge there's a walkway on either side of the river and, at dusk, you'll find the place full of the sound of birds who fly in to nest there, and of trams and cars rumbling overhead.
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Today's ISM in Art is everybody's favourite -- Impressionism. Most of our ISMs so far come from the twentieth century, but Impressionism is ninteenth century and it refers to that loose group of artists whose paintings were considered too awful to be shown at the Paris Salon, so instead they showed their art independently. They painted outdoors, their subjects were contemporary and everyday, especially landscapes and still life.
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This is a story about the meeting of two cultures and much needed rain. Two dancers, David McMicken and Tim Newth, run the Darwin-based dance company Tracks. For the last twenty years, they've been working in the Tanami Desert with the Warlpiri people and particularly with Warlpiri elder Steve Tjampitjinpa. Their project is called Milpirri, and it began when Steve Tjampitjinpa approached Tim and David with the idea of creating a performance that would involve the whole community.
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Ancient tradition connected Herculaneum with the name of the Greek hero Herakles. It is the Greeks who named the city Herculaneum. But in 79 CE, along with its neighbour Pompeii, the rich Roman resort town of Herculaneum was buried under around 20 metres of lava, mud and ash by the catastrophic eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
Sunday 26 October 2008
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Last Friday, the funeral of our most famous surrealist artist, James Gleeson, was held in Sydney.
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We've talked before in Artworks about the symbolic power -- in fairytale and fashion -- of Red Shoes. Red as a colour is dynamic and dangerous, and red shoes carry connotations of dangerous transformative power. A new telling of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Red Shoes is being performed in Perth right now at PICA, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. It's an adaptation by Humphrey Bower and is directed by Matthew Lutton. Ash Gibson Greig composed the music.
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Earlier this month, Trevor Jamieson and Scott Rankin won a Deadly Award for most outstanding achievement in film, TV or theatre - for their stage production, Ngapartji Ngapartji. Trevor is a performer, and a Spinifex man from the western desert of Australia. Scott Rankin is a theatre director and the founder of Big hArt, an organisation that's mission is to create both art and social change.
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In this week's ISM Lyn Gallacher searches for a definition of Situationism and cannot get past the figure of Guy Debord, who was one of the movement's founders and its leading light.
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Forty years ago, new Australian plays by young writers like David Williamson, Alex Buzo and John Romeril were making a splash by commenting directly on the society and politics of their day. There's a fair bit of nostalgia around that marvellous rise of Australian voices and stories in the theatre in the 1960s and 70s -- which seemed to then fall away again.
Sunday 19 October 2008
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The New York musician, conceptual artist and writer DJ Spooky is the man who is convinced we are all people of the text. DJ Spooky -- That Subliminal Kid, alias Paul D Miller -- spoke to Suzanne Donisthorpe about global DJ-ing, and escaping information overload in the wild spaces of Antartica, where he has recently been to record sound for his Melbourne Festival show, Terra Nova Sinfonia Antartica.
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Eve Sussman is a 'sculptor who shoots video'. She's made a film that's been screening at the Melbourne Festival, inspired by a painting, the Intervention of the Sabine Women, by Jacques-Louis David from 1799. It's a very dramatic painting, set in the earliest days of Rome, and shows women trying to stop a fight between men: the Romans and their neighbours the Sabines.
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Luminist is a show by Valerie Sparkes which features enormous wall-sized digitally manipulated photographs of a fantasy St Kilda, the iconic Melbourne beach-side suburb.
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This week on Artworks, there's no actual -ISM in Art as such, but a nod in that direction with an artist who's interested in the by-product of celebrity culture -- sycophantism.
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Our colleague John Cargher, who died in April this year, presented Singers of Renown on this network, as you know, for over forty years. ABC Classics has now put out a three-CD set, 'A Tribute To John Cargher', and there are ten of these to give away.
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When you go to the theatre, do you ever really notice the music and sound that's part of the show; where it's coming from, how it's working, who might have composed and designed it?
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